Film: The Age of Big Data

Date

March 17, 2014

Time

3:30 - 4:30 pm

Location

Cashion 5th Floor

Description

This BBC film takes a look at how Big Data and analytics innovations are being applied in a number of disparate domains:
� by police departments to predict crime hotspots
� by medical researchers to help diagnose and treat illness
� by financial traders to profit from markets using pattern identification algorithms
� by marketing firms to highly personalise mobile advertising and even predict buying behaviours
� by doctors to provide predictive and personalised medicine
� by astronomers to collect �the next generation of data� to catalogue analyse the universe
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